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Anthony Barnett

BBC News - Student tuition fee protest ends with 153 arrests - 0 views

  • A 19-year-old student told the BBC their strategy was to avoid being contained by police: "Whenever the police block us off, we turn round and go the other way. "We also do not want to be panicked into violence. Smashing up windows was necessary in the beginning to get the demonstrations on the front pages, but now any violence would be counter-productive."
Anthony Barnett

End of college cash incentives to hit East End pupils hardest | News - 0 views

  • More than 30,000 people in the area claim education maintenance allowance which helps poor students aged 16 to 18 afford to stay in school or college. But the scheme is being scrapped by the Government at the end of this academic year.Across London, almost 100,000 teenagers claim payments of between £10 and £30 a week. Figures from the Department for Education show the biggest demand is in east London — more than 5,000 in Newham get the allowance, along with more than 4,000 in Tower Hamlets, compared with 900 in Richmond.
Anthony Barnett

FT.com / Comment / Op-Ed Columnists - Britain's coalition badly needs a Plan B - 0 views

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    Plan B already!
Anthony Barnett

BBC News - Filling the house: Why we need a "Big Society" Lords - 0 views

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    Give uz a job
Anthony Barnett

The mood of Parliament - 0 views

  • Conservative MPs did not want to vote for a referendum on the Alternative Vote, a system they dislike. Many did not want a reduction in the number of MPs and the boundary changes that entails so soon after winning their seats for the first time. They did not want to support the increased External Action Service of the EU or the expanded EU budget. They did not like the 5 year Parliament  bill, the increase in the EU and Overseas Aid budgets nor some of the defence cuts.
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    Conservative MPs did not want to vote for a referendum on the Alternative Vote, a system they dislike. Many did not want a reduction in the number of MPs and the boundary changes that entails so soon after winning their seats for the first time. They did not want to support the increased External Action Service of the EU or the expanded EU budget. They did not like the 5 year Parliament bill, the increase in the EU and Overseas Aid budgets nor some of the defence cuts.
Anthony Barnett

Lib Dems want to destroy Parliament and replace it with rule by judges | Mail Online - 0 views

  • Before the Election, David Cameron promised a Sovereignty Bill. In his speech entitled Giving Power Back To The People he said: ‘As we have no written constitution .  .  . we have no explicit legal guarantee that the last word on our laws stays in Britain .  .  . so, as well as making sure that further power cannot be handed to the EU without a referendum, we will also introduce a new law, in the form of a United Kingdom Sovereignty Bill, to make it clear that ultimate authority stays in this country, in our Parliament
Anthony Barnett

FT.com / Comment / Opinion - Britain was right to do business with Libya - 0 views

  • Of course, when such public groundswell starts to spread, countries such as Britain should be among the first to offer encouragement and practical support. We should always use our diplomatic channels to exert pressure in favour of reform and democracy.
Anthony Barnett

Liberty TUC Legal Observation Report 180411 - 0 views

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    "Untidy is OK"
Anthony Barnett

ComRes: polling and research consultancy >> ComRes Poll Digest - Political - ITV News C... - 0 views

  •   Additionally, the latest results show widespread distrust in our politicians when the police, employment and phone hacking are involved. When it comes to ensuring justice on the hacking scandal, half (50%) do not trust any of the party leaders. A quarter (27%) trust David Cameron, 16% trust Ed Miliband and only 7% trust Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg to ensure justice.   Similarly, more than half (55%) do not trust our party leaders to root out corruption in the police; employ people with strong moral values (55%) – a nod to Cameron hiring Andy Coulson – or to get rid of corruption in British politics (56%).   In the wake of the phone hacking scandal, a staggering four out of five (80%) do not trust the media, while just one in ten (10%) do and 10% don’t know. Alleged police involvement in the phone hacking scandal has lead to concern that there is wider corruption in the police force, with 77% who agree they are worried and a minimal 12% who disagree.
Anthony Barnett

Michael Harris - The re-birth of liberal Labour | Pragmatic Radicalism - 0 views

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    Radical Pragmatism and Ch88
Anthony Barnett

ConservativeHome's Platform: David Davis MP: We need real and drastic change in the lea... - 0 views

  • From the bungled arrest of the ricin plotters to the shooting of innocent Brazilian Jean Charles de Menezes, the failure to investigate the ringleader of the July 21st suicide bomb plot, the arrest of Damian Green, the admission that not one of its 100,000 stop and searches under Terrorism Act had led to a terror-related arrest, and finally the ‘Hackgate’ scandal, the Met has stumbled from one blunder to another.     
Anthony Barnett

Wrong Answers in Britain - NYTimes.com - 0 views

  • Fair play is one traditional British value we have always admired. And one we fear is increasingly at risk.
Anthony Barnett

BBC News - 'Occupy' is a response to economic permafrost - 0 views

  • In this sense the movement is a kind of replacement social democracy;
Anthony Barnett

BBC News - Rupert Murdoch hits back over sabotage claims - 0 views

  • Writing on Twitter, Rupert Murdoch took a clear swipe at the BBC, asserting "enemies many different agendas, but worst old toffs and right wingers who still want last century's status quo with their monopolies". "Let's have it on! Choice, freedom of thought and markets, individual personal responsibility."
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    "Writing on Twitter, Rupert Murdoch took a clear swipe at the BBC, asserting "enemies many different agendas, but worst old toffs and right wingers who still want last century's status quo with their monopolies". "Let's have it on! Choice, freedom of thought and markets, individual personal responsibility.""
Anthony Barnett

Freedom of information: my monstrous idea will keep corporate tyrants at bay | George M... - 0 views

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    commercial confidentiality - end it
Anthony Barnett

Top mandarin: 15% of Neets die within 10 years - News - TES - 0 views

  • not in education, employment or training
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